American arrested in Japan for kidnapping own kids

Man with ties to Rhode Island has been jailed in Japan after Parental Abduction.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• Christopher Savoie
• Japan
• Arrested
• Kidnapping
• Children

[hiroyoa]

Savoie is a naturalized Japanese, and legally they were never divorced in Japan. So there is no room for American law to come to effect. This is a complete domestic issue.

[bobfrombarstow]

Criss and Amy took the kids from the Mother, I don't care if she did break the law, their both complete 'a-holes'!! I hope he spend the full five years in jail over their, the guy a moron.

[serbetli100]

AFAIK, this guy has Japanese citizenship so he is a jap, and the enemy of USA people.

[serbetli100]

Dirty ethnocentric retarded yankee monkeys are always trouble makers

[psupccea]

Japs are trouble maakers on Earth ALL THE TIME man~~~~~~

[0SUBSISTANCE0]

This is the Japanese law. If u not fallow, u will go to jail. so stop calling Kids mother as kidnapper and don't came Japan to make trouble. everything that common in US is no common in world. remember u Americans r not king of world. respect other Country own way

[julesario]

Great father! Remember don't be afraid to get a lot of present Foreigners to help you put pressure on the local area

[Enders119]

@Hokit Yeah, but at least my country does something to protect our children. I'm not raising kids in a country where it is legal to sell child pornography. Hell, you can get it off of amazon.JP if you know how to write it in Japanese.

[Hokit]

@BlazinNSoul It amazes me that there are so many people quick to form an opinion based on just a few articles or comments they came across. It's immature and it's incredibly lazy. Each society (especially those in the scale of Japan's) is so large and complex, it'll take years and mountains of intense studies to comprehend even just a FRACTION of them. So yes, you're COMPLETELY "in the wrong" for passing judgment on 127 MILLION people.

[Hokit]

@Enders119 The fact you generalised an entire country as being of a paedophilic nature actually brings YOUR level of education to question.

[gg5665]

A 50-year-old woman who married an American man in Japan subsequently divorced him in 1998 because he made no financial contribution to their living expenses. He gave up custody rights to their two children, aged 2 and 5 at the time, on the grounds that they would be raised in Japan. However, the man later took the children to the United States without her permission. The woman felt dismayed, because she "had taken care of them 90 percent of the time."

(The Asahi Shimbun Japanese newspaper)

[gg5665]

If you intend to take flight back to Japan because of violence from your husband, first seek protection from the local police and women's shelters, and guidance from local specialists. They can also help you to secure evidence and provide necessary advice."

(The Asahi Shimbun Japanese newspaper)